Also 6 -acyon. [ad. L. suppūrātio, -ōnen, n. of action f. suppūrāre to SUPPURATE. Cf. F. suppuration.]
1. The process or condition of suppurating; the formation or secretion of pus; the coming to a head of a boil or other eruption.
1541. Copland, Galyen’s Terap., 2 F ij b. Yf there be … vehement pulsacyon, in such wyse that there is no more hope of the curacyon of the sayd partyes without suppuracyon, all the auncyentes apply the sayd suppuratyfe medycynes.
1543. Traheron, Vigo’s Chirurg., II. xxi. 23. An aposteme … that commethe to suppuration by the ayde of medicines and nature.
1676. Wiseman, Chirurg. Treat., IV. iv. 267. I applied again the Malagma, which caused a Suppuration of the remainder.
1732. Arbuthnot, Rules of Diet, in Aliments, etc. (1735), 342. The Inflammation ends in a Suppuration and an Abscess in the Lungs.
1797. M. Baillie, Morb. Anat. (1807), 79. When inflammation of the lungs terminates in suppuration.
1868. Darwin, Anim. & Pl., xii. II. 12. A cow lost a horn by suppuration.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 762. The suppuration of acne spots.
† 2. A suppurating or suppurated boil, sore, etc.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 57. One that had a suppuration in his chist.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 259. The dung … being applyed to the suppurations.
1658. Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 1105. They will concoct the Impostumes and suppurations of the breasts.
